The Wall Street Journal transcript of an friendly interview by Kim Strassel with Sen. Dan Sullivan has her pausing for an ad at one point and saying, “When we come back more with Dan J. Sullivan, Senator for Alaska about his race for reelection.”

The Journal audio has the correct middle initial, but it’s noteworthy that even a stalwart Wasilla supporter of Sullivan’s like Strassel can get the incumbent’s name wrong.

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On November 19, 2025, the president of Glenfarne told legislators that the company was so optimistic about the Alaska LNG project that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of its own money to order pipe and get it shipped to Alaska.

This was supposed to happen before the state agreed on a property tax break.

The pipe was never ordered. The company did not spend hundreds of millions.

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State employee Tammie Wilson, a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, has her own campaign organization she calls “Save the State.”

The largest donors to “Save the State” are Wilson and fellow assembly member Brett Rotermund, co-owner of Bulletproof Trailers.

Save the State from what?

It’s not a group saving the state from sleazy political ads and character assassination.

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In a dumb diatribe against Sens. Bill Wielechowski and Cathy Giessel Thursday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy stumbled over an answer of sorts about why his gasline predictions from last fall turned out to be so wrong.

“Calculations,” he said.

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There is a compelling and simple reason to end the Hilcorp loophole and do it in the gasline bill, one that nearly all Republican legislators and Gov. Mike Dunleavy are either unaware of or hoping that the public will never learn about.

State income from oil and gas production taxes would take a $220 million total hit from 2029 to 2032 under the gas pipeline plan because the oil companies would be able to deduct lease expenditures from their tax bills, according to the Department of Revenue.

Closing the Hilcorp loophole would help.

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Dunleavy called Sen. Bill Wielechowski a “bullshitter” after a press conference Thursday night, following rejection of a compromise gasline bill that would have also closed the Hilcorp loophole.

Dunleavy also complained about Sen. Cathy Giessel and said those two senators are the problem.

“Wielechowski said he’d love to know specifically what the governor ‘thinks I’m bullshitting about,’’ the Anchorage Daily News said.

“Looking for a scapegoat is a normal response, so I don’t blame him for that,” Giessel told the Daily News. “Considering he’s been absent (from Juneau) this whole time, he wouldn’t know the Senate Majority views this as a priority.”

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Alaskans have had plenty of time to understand the Hilcorp loophole and how to plug it.

The compromise gas line bill up in the Legislature today would do the job. Ignore the moaning and groaning from Hilcorp and the members of oil company benevolent society.

Republican members of the Legislature are pretending that no one has studied or analyzed this matter, which is not true.

The gridlock in state government, enabled by Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his allies in the Legislature, has prevented the state from closing the loophole.

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For six years, Trump has continued to lie about the 2020 election, with the eager approval of nearly every Republican in Congress. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is an exception to the rule.

Begich will continue to lie about the election. Sullivan, if ever pressed on the topic, will not repeat his 2021 condemnation of Trump or say that Trump’s “blatant disregard” of Pence, “infuriates me.”

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Sen. Dan Sullivan didn’t make a big show of hanging out with Todd Blanche when Trump’s unqualified choice for attorney general visited Alaska last week.

Sullivan would have found a way to accompany Blanche if he were not facing a tough election fight with Mary Peltola. Sullivan is keeping his head down about Blanche, which is Sullivan’s go-to strategy on any matter that carries a political risk.

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